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Image number: RS.9954
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'A new barometer'
Date
1786
Creator
Tiberius Cavallo (1749 - 1809, Italian) , Natural Philosopher, Physicist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 349mm
width (painting): 202mm
width (painting): 202mm
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Description
Plate 13 from the paper “Description of a new barometer for measuring the heights of mountains and other places”, by Tiberius Cavallo. Not published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Five figures including elevations of the instrument with its stand and with details of fittings.
Signed in ink lower left “T.Cavallo delt.”
Five figures including elevations of the instrument with its stand and with details of fittings.
Signed in ink lower left “T.Cavallo delt.”
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